What factors determine whether teachers or students drive investigations?
Role of students or teachers in an investigation
- Students will be posing their own questions and ideas during inquiry assignments. They will use evidence while responding to questions, they use evidence to formulate their explanations, they connect the explanation to their knowledge.
Who determines question? creates procedure?
- The teacher originally poses a question, but leaves it open ended for the students can discuss and then go down different pathways.
Complexity of investigation
What do you think it means to do "open-ended" inquiry? How open-ended should inquiry activities be? What are the costs/benefits of students engaging in open-ended inquiry?
- Although questions are open ended the students should still be guided in some direction because even though a student is answering an open ended question, the standards need to be kept in mind.
- some benefits are that students get to think on their own opposed to being told how to think. Students are allowed to make their own pathways.
Open-ended has no right or wrong answer
Open-endedness depends on teacher preference, student ability, and complexity of topic
Benefits: teaching students to think like a scientist (critical thinking), contructivism, making connections
Costs: Difficult for students to grasp when there is no single clear cut answer
What do you think are some essential ingredients for an inquiry-rich lesson?
Build investigative skills (easy to hard)
Large block of time
Flexible learning environment
Student driven, are students able to connect principle concepts to inquiry process?
Since we are writing one lesson plan per day, describe a lesson sequence for possible inquiry activity. You many make this as specific or general as you please. -Opening-
-Teacher gives open ended question to the class.
-allows students to think about the topic for a few minutes.
-allows all students to give ideas in which they have thought of.
Engagement - The students may debate on their different opinions about the questions.
The teacher will monitor the debate, and when neccesary intervine to keep the students on task, but will try to stay out of the debate as much as possible.
Closing - The students homework assignment will be for the students to find supporting evidence for the next class for the points that they stated during the debate.
How do I as a teacher plan and facilitate inquiry for my students?
What factors determine whether teachers or students drive investigations?
- Role of students or teachers in an investigation
- Students will be posing their own questions and ideas during inquiry assignments. They will use evidence while responding to questions, they use evidence to formulate their explanations, they connect the explanation to their knowledge.- Who determines question? creates procedure?
- The teacher originally poses a question, but leaves it open ended for the students can discuss and then go down different pathways.What do you think it means to do "open-ended" inquiry? How open-ended should inquiry activities be? What are the costs/benefits of students engaging in open-ended inquiry?
- Although questions are open ended the students should still be guided in some direction because even though a student is answering an open ended question, the standards need to be kept in mind.
- some benefits are that students get to think on their own opposed to being told how to think. Students are allowed to make their own pathways.
What do you think are some essential ingredients for an inquiry-rich lesson?
Since we are writing one lesson plan per day, describe a lesson sequence for possible inquiry activity. You many make this as specific or general as you please.
- Opening-
-Teacher gives open ended question to the class.
-allows students to think about the topic for a few minutes.
-allows all students to give ideas in which they have thought of.
Engagement - The students may debate on their different opinions about the questions.
The teacher will monitor the debate, and when neccesary intervine to keep the students on task, but will try to stay out of the debate as much as possible.
Closing - The students homework assignment will be for the students to find supporting evidence for the next class for the points that they stated during the debate.